7 Days To Die Alpha 6

7 Days To Die Alpha 6 has been released. This new version add many new features including: a much larger world, new metal forging system, new Snowy biome, new locations…

If you are looking for servers running Alpha 6 : http://7daystodie-servers.com/version/alpha_6/

Changelog

Added

• Added new snow Biome into Navezgane
• Added brand new metal forging system for making ingots, gun-parts and bullet parts
• Added weapon breakdown system and crafting for the pistol, shotgun, sawed off shotgun, sniper rifle and bullets
• Added 3 new snow biome zombies including the Frigid Hunter, the Frozen Lumberjack and the Frostbitten Worker
• Added dynamically sized loot containers and UI
• Added mouse key bind support
• Added new server info panel for the server browser window showing all game options
• Added game options to Disable/Enable NAT for player hosted games
• Added scrap iron, scrap brass and scrap lead special wildcard recipes to the top of the recipe list.
• Added new weapon breakdown special wildcard recipe to the top of the recipe list with a special yellow color
• Added a new “suck nearby items” function: when you press E all items on the ground in a 4m radius get moved towards the player and auto-collected
• Added new Take All loot container hot key which shares the players reload binding
• Added new DaysToRespawnIfPlayerLeft option to spawners so zombies won’t spawn inside locations that have been cleared unless abandoned by players for several days cities are excluded
• Added tooltip line sound and gui that shows help for some special recipes, weapon repair, weapon breakdown and new forge functions
• Added new primitive Stone Axe and Sharp Stone weapons
• Added 2 new gas station points of interest to the snow biome
• Added a large ghost town point of interest in the southeast desert biome
• Added a huge ski lodge and sawmill in the north east corner of the snowy biome
• Added 3 new different army recon campsites with sandbags and foxhole trenches and military loot at various biomes to Navezgane
• Added a new business to the plains and 4 new campsites at various biomes to Navezgane
• Added car wrecks in the world with static crawler and dogs spawners in the areas
• Added new gravel and asphalt roads and ponds and lakes to the new larger Navezgane
• Added more cars, road signs and light poles to the new larger Navezgame
• Added many new player starts spawn locations to Navezgane
• Added medicine cabinets, televisions and paintings to the buildings and houses in Navezgane
• Added full sound sets for crafting, forging, map and build menus
• Added military loot to new military munitions chest
• Added iron bars model and crafting recipe
• Added new Tungsten Door & Recipe
• Added recipe to break scrap metal walls down into scrap metal
• Added forge and iron wall block and recipe
• Added paging for game options panels to accommodate the growing number of game options
• Added medicine cabinet as a new type of loot list
• Added army awning tents blocks, sandbags and camo netting for army camps
• Added clay lump recipe from corn meal and water
• Added corn meal loot to cupboards
• Added weight to tools so all sensible items can be melted down or turned to scrap for forging
• Added empty bullet casings, 9mm bullets, 10mm bullets, 7.62 bullets, candlestick, trophy, car batteries, radiators, Venison stew, Blueberry Pie to loot
• Added Forge GUI backdrop, animation and Forge particle system
• Added large and small bullet casing items
• Added icons for bullet casings
• Added bullet tip item
• Added icon for bullet tip item
• Added brass door knob item for scrap material
• Added lead fishing weight item for scrap material
• Added broken down gun pieces for all weapons except the RL and Hunting Rifle
• Added mold objects for all gun components
• Added new tooltip hints when placing items in the forge
• Added car lead battery loot item
• Added new stone axe, sharp stone recipes
• Added rocks to plains and desert biomes
• Added sniper rifle recipe
• Added ingot mold recipes for brass and lead
• Added clay drop chance to desert ground and forest
• Added recipe for concrete from cinder blocks
• Added short shotgun barrel mold recipe
• Added text entries for new enemies, items and molds
• Added model and icon for scrap iron, scrap brass, scrap lead and scrap tungsten
• Added brass candlestick item and icon and made it useable as a club weapon
• Added icons for trophies
• Added mold icons for lead, iron, brass, aluminum and copper ingots
• Added icons for bullet casings, bullet tip, 9mm, 10mm and 7.62mm bullets
• Added icon for stone axe, sharp stone and iron bars
• Added new scrap iron, brass and lead models and icons

Changes

• Changed the size of Navezgane increasing it by 33%
• Changed client inventory is now saved every 30s to the server or when the client quits.
• Changed spawn rules to be governed by the hosts Friendly Fire settings. With FF on new players will spawn away from each other at a random spawn point as this option supports PVP play with FF off new players will spawn near each other as this option supports cooperative play.
• Changed sleeping bag rules so the game remembers your last placed sleeping bag or bed only and auto spawns you here without selecting it.
• Changed fat zombie cop puke attack range 33% shorter and half damage to players
• Changed all firearms to use bullets instead of magazines to work better with forging of bullets
• Changed all metal objects now have weight so they can be scrapped into metal for the forge
• Changed removed iron ingot recipes, they must be forged now
• Changed zombie spawning in major cities during day to have more zombies and respawn faster
• Changed biome spawning so that min distance is 16 was 32
• Changed removed iron ingot recipes from Iron wall and iron ore now you must melt them
• Changed metal_medium and metal_hard to have more durability
• Changed Game Info to use key value pairs instead of a : separated list w/backwards compatibility
• Changed paintings, modern couches, end tables and small televisions so they can be picked up
• Changed removed Fat zombie cops from Diersville, they will be limited to night spawning
• Changed City Biome to have more day walkers
• Changed chance to find painkillers in garbage and other loot now that there are medicine cabinets
• Changed key bind window to NGUI
• Changed Sun movement is now from east (morning) to the west (evening)
• Changed Snow zombies to use fat zombie hand attack
• Changed removed m136 rocket launchers and rockets from wall safes
• Changed removed old recipes for scrap metal from tin cans, candy tins, hub caps and air filters to prepare for the forging system
• Changed garage loot to exclude painkillers and include shovels, pickaxes and fire axes
• Changed spawn locations marked by stars are no longer shown on the map
• Changed snow blocks now have a chance to drop dirt, snow and clay
• Changed reduced shotgun ammo from loot
• Changed camp fire recipe to use a log circled with small rocks
• Changed bullets so they can be broken down to retrieve ingredients
• Changed coming next load screen image for next release
• Changed throworganichitstone1.wav to sound more like flesh hitting stone
• Changed all ammo pieces and individual bullets to stack 500 per item
• Changed recipe so you get more gunpowder from coal and potassium nitrate
• Change increased chance for clay drop on all top ground layers
• Changed cinder blocks so they can be picked up
• Changed ladders so they burn as fuel in the forge
• Changed buckshot to get eight from one lead ingot
• Changed corpses so they gib easier
• Changed brass lights to drop scrap brass

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug that would not pop up an error window upon finding out the server is not connected to NAT during connection.
• Fixed bug when selecting a server in the server browser, ones with similar information would also be highlighted
• Fixed bug when starting a private game, you were unable to invite friends to join via steam friend invite system
• Fixed bug causing bottled water to show up too much in cupboards and not enough food
• Fixed small business buildings that had light fixtures blocking the players path
• Fixed black block in desert junkyard
• Fixed looting nurse zombie sound to play looting corpse sound
• Fixed mp5 reload scale problem
• Fixed missing material on clay lump
• Fixed coal ore blocks to burn & increased coal piece burn value
• Fixed the zombie noise system that was broken
• Fixed deer so they cannot climb ladders
• Fixed chopped logs to drop pine trunks
• Fixed bug where 2 players can now activate the forge at the same time
• Fixed bug where clients can breakdown weapons in coop now
• Fixed world “cut lines”
• Fixed short metal pipes so they can be scrapped
• Fixed pipe bomb throw animation stuck glitch
• Fixed Crossbow now has a bolt when taking in the hand
• Fixed pickaxe hold loop problem

Known Issues

• When you light a pipebomb and don’t throw it, it will explode but the pipebomb is not “deleted”/removed from your inventory. If you die, all of them are dropped, including the one that exploded.
• Players can sometimes get stuck in small vertical spaces less than 2 blocks high like on top of a cinder block or trash pile
• Mac builds need to quit via the task manager
• Rocket Launchers and Hunting Rifles cannot be broken down yet or crafted
• Upgrading to Alpha 6 will sometimes cause players to lose their key bindings. If this happens go into options/controls/restore defaults and hit apply then close the game and start again to fix the problem
• Alpha 6 has some unresolved animation issues caused from the Unity 4.3 upgrade including the cross bow animation and zoom
• Male punch animation doesn’t play
• Some items have only been translated to English